Jalen Chatfield
Carolina Hurricanes Defense #5
Undrafted, 20 minutes a night, and 2 goals in 167 tries.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | VAN | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -11 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 13:26 |
| 2021-22 | CAR | 16 | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | 14:47 |
| 2022-23 | CAR | 78 | 6 | 8 | 14 | +23 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 93 | 6.5 | 14:07 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 72 | 8 | 14 | 22 | +15 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 8.9 | 15:12 |
| 2024-25 | CAR | 79 | 7 | 11 | 18 | +22 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 114 | 6.1 | 18:53 |
| 2025-26 | CAR | 72 | 2 | 15 | 17 | +15 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 2.0 | 20:08 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 335 | 23 | 52 | 75 | +65 | 151 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 436 | 5.3 | 16:46 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
2 goals and 15 assists in 72 games, plus-15, at 20:08 a night.
The Finesse Game
There is none, and the club does not want any. 167 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet with 7 per cent inside 20, and 2 goals. 23 goals in 335 career games.
He moves it and defends. 15 assists is the whole of the offensive contribution.
The Physical Game
6-1, 209, and he plays a genuinely hard game — closes gaps aggressively, finishes checks, and is unpleasant in front of his own net. 18 penalty minutes in 72 games of that work is excellent discipline.
The Intangibles
52 per cent of the expected goals, 70th percentile, and 58.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 96th — and note the gap between those 2. He controls the puck at an elite rate and the chances that result are only modestly in his favour, which is the signature of a defensive defenceman on a possession team: lots of puck, not much danger created with it.
The goals went 59-52 across 1,251 minutes, which on this club is a poor return and mostly belongs to the goaltending.
He is 30, undrafted, and has made 335 NHL games out of being reliable and hard. On a blue line that lost Slavin for half a season, he held it together.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,251 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52%
- 70th pct
- Shot attempts
- 58%
- 96th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 59 for, 52 against. Expected: 57.3 and 52.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 47 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 80th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.69 a game
- Distance
- 2.71 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.6 mph
- 76th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
2
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 18 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1251 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2025-26
- The club
- CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.0% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,251 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaccob Slavin | 54.9% | 50.2% | 58.2% |
| Andrei Svechnikov | 47.4% | 54.4% | 59.6% |
| Jordan Martinook | 49.1% | 53.2% | 57.6% |
54.9% together, 50.2% for him apart and 58.2% for Slavin apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Slavin and did not follow him.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
167 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 64 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.